F Newsmagazine - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Art, Culture, and Politics

Maria Elena Murguia

What your taste in art says about your personality

Are you a non-smoker looking to fritter away that socially awkward twenty-minute class break by heading to the computer lab only to be disappointed by the “one new message” pop-up producing a less than titillating 10kb email from “Broadcast News”? Try the bbc.com’s Art and Personality test. The mildly entertaining test designed by Dr. Stan Reimers in collaboration with the BBC is part of a long history of art and personality tests designed to help you … well … you know, “know thyself,” and all that.

Terra: The Closing of Chicago’s Third Largest Museum

Who can help but let out the slightest of sighs when an ambitious underdog of an institution closes its doors and its most choice pieces, treasured as only favorite children are, are sent to live with their southern relatives, most likely to hereafter be seen as just a few more stars in an already mostly warehoused galaxy.

Terra: The Closing of Chicago’s Third Largest Museum

Who can help but let out the slightest of sighs when an ambitious underdog of an institution closes its doors and its most choice pieces, treasured as only favorite children are, are sent to live with their southern relatives, most likely to hereafter be seen as just a few more stars in an already mostly warehoused galaxy.

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